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Vice Provost for Information Services and CIO
618 Kerr Administration Building
Corvallis, OR 97331-2150
(541) 737-7297 (phone)
(541) 737-3033 (fax)
Assistant: Donetta Sheffold
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Vice Provost for Information Services and Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Curt Pederson serves as the vice provost for Information Services and CIO at Oregon State University and as the CIO for the Oregon University System (OUS), reporting to the Chancellor.
As vice provost and CIO, he led a successful turnaround strategy to re-establish financial and organizational credibility following a major financial crisis. Information Services has reorganized, improved and expanded services and continues to build toward a sound infrastructure for OSU research, teaching and learning. Over the past few years, Curt has supported the open source movement making the OSU Open Source Lab a focal point for collaboration and innovation in open source software development. The OSU Lab has grown rapidly and is hosting most of the world’s largest open source projects. See www.osuosl.org.
Before joining OSU, Curt served as Oregon's first state chief information officer and as associate director of information services for the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries. In both Oregon and Washington he was recognized for his success with legislators and government officials for leading innovative technology initiatives.
Prior to entering government, he spent more than 20 years managing administrative and operating functions of the 12th largest public electric utility in the United States.
Curt was elected to the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC) Executive Board, represents the Oregon University System (OUS) on the Oregon Portland CIO Alliance, Oregon State CIO Council, Telecommunications Coordinating Council (ORTCC) and is a member of Dell Platinum Advisory Group and Sprint/Nextel Higher Education Advisory Group. In 2004 Curt was named of the Premier 100 IT Leaders in the United States by Computerworld magazine. In 2006 Information Services was named one of the Top 100 Business Innovators by CIO Magazine.
The vice provost for Information Services and CIO provides coordination, vision, leadership, and advocacy for the effective application of information technologies to the instructional, research and service missions of the university. The vice provost and CIO has executive responsibility for university-level and OUS matters pertaining to budget, information systems and personnel. Information Services (IS) provides the university with the basic infrastructure to support classrooms, Web services, computer labs, computing services, and network services (voice and data). IS includes the following units:
